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Today’s Word: opinion

Today’s Word: opinion

February 9, 2017   =========

☆  opinion  意見

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Recently, with all the world political news going on, a lot of people get confused about the difference between an opinion and a fact. An opinion is a belief or view, or thought about something. Whereas a fact is anything that is done or happens and can be proved. Here are some examples to show the difference:

Today is Thursday. (Fact)
Today is Thursday, and Mark always sleeps in on Thursdays, so that is why he is late for work. (Opinion about why Mark is late to work today.)

My son had a temperature of 39 degrees this morning. (Fact)
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